Maintain landscape to minimize habitat for chiggers

From: Press of Atlantic City | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

face=+Bold; Questionface=-Bold; : I was recently bitten multiple times by some type of insect. Do you know what they could be?

face=+Bold; Answerface=-Bold; : Your bites are probably the result of an insect called a chigger. Chiggers are tiny parasitic mites that cause red welts and severe itching. Their natural choice of a host is a rodent, bird, livestock, snake and toad and not the unfortunate na-ture-seeking human who wanders into their environment.

The adult chigger can be seen crawling on the ground, but it is the immature larval stage of chigger that causes the bite. The larvae are ...

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